1. Yusef Komunyakaa - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Yusef Komunyakaa (1947 ) is an eminent American poet who currently teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusef_Komunyakaa

Yusef Komunyakaa From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa - ) is an eminent American poet who currently teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers . Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award (for Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems ), the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (also for Neon Vernacular ), and the 2001 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize . His subject matter ranges from the African-American experience through rural Southern life before civil rights and his experience as a soldier during the Vietnam War He was born and grew up in the small town of Bogalusa, Louisiana before and during the Civil Rights era. He served a tour of Army duty during the Vietnam War, when he acted as a journalist for the military paper, covering major actions, interviewing fellow soldiers and publishing articles on Vietnamese history and literature. Upon his return to the states he turned to poetry, eventually becoming one of the most popular and important American writers of his generation. He was married to the Australian novelist Mandy Sayer for ten years, and was engaged in a long-term relationship with the poet

2. PEN American Center - Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa is a professor in the Council of Humanities and Creative Writing Program at Princeton University. He lives in New York City. http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1177

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3. Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa. Background Information. Born in Bogalusa, Louisiana in 1974. Entered the Army at age 18. Served in Vietnam. http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215687/Yusef Komunyakaa.htm

Yusef Komunyakaa Background Information Born in Bogalusa, Louisiana in 1974. Entered the Army at age 18. Served in Vietnam. Won the Bronze Star for his work with the military newspaper The Southern Cross In 1994 he won the Pulitzer Prize in the poetry for Neon Vemacular. Some of his poems are based on his life in the South. Also uses music and love. Well-Known Works Untitled Blues Elegy for Thelonious Between Days Facing It February in Sydney Euphony My Father’s Love Letters Camouflaging the Chimera We tied branches to our helmets. with mud from the riverbank, blades of grass hung from our pockets of our tiger suits. We wove ourselves into the terrain, content to be a hummingbird’s target. against a breeze off the river, slow-dragging with ghosts from Saigon to Bangkok, with women left in doorways reaching in from America. We aimed at dark-hearted songbirds. In our way station of shadows rock apes tried to blow our cover, throwing stones at the sunset. Chameleons crawled our spines, changing from day to night: green to gold

4. Yusef Komunyakaa - Poems And Biography By AmericanPoems.com Yusef Komunyakaa (1947 ) is an eminent American poet. He was born in the small town of Bogalusa, Louisiana and currently teaches at Princeton University. http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Yusef-Komunyakaa

Poets Members Poem of the Day Top 40 ... Privacy January 27th, 2008 - we have 237 poets , 8034 poems and 16584 comments Biography of Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa (1947 - Present) Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- ) is an eminent American poet. He was born in the small town of Bogalusa, Louisiana and currently teaches at Princeton University. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His books include Dedications and Other Darkhorses Lost in the Bone-Wheel Factory Copacetic I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head Dien Cai Dau Magic City Neon Vernacular Talking Dirty to the Gods (1999), and Pleasure Dome (2002). His subject matter ranges from the African-American experience through rural Southern life before civil rights and his experience as a soldier during the Vietnam War. Biography by: This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and uses material adapted in whole or in part from the Wikipedia article on Yusef Komunyakaa. 3 Poems written by Yusef Komunyakaa The poems are by default sorted according to volume, but you can also choose to sort them alphabetically or by page views.

5. Bookslut | Taboo By Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa has nothing to prove. With a Pulitzer Prize under his belt for a decade, a teaching position at Princeton University, rambling lists of http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2004_12_003800.php

@import "/c/style.css"; @import "/c/style.css"; Bookslut Home Features Reviews Columns ... Advertise December 2004 Olivia Cronk poetry Taboo by Yusef Komunyakaa Nathanielturner.com Yusef Komunyakaa has nothing to prove. With a Pulitzer Prize under his belt for a decade, a teaching position at Princeton University, rambling lists of poetry prize credits, and the Bronze Star for his correspondent work in Vietnam, Komunyakaa certainly commands a bit of respect. It is curious, then, that his most recent collection does not appear to be generating much interesting conversation. I admit that my research was confined to Internet sources I was looking for some information about The Wishbone Trilogy at large, of which Taboo Taboo Taboo Herodotus, woven into his story, tells how the Phoenicians lent how a ghost-driven flotilla eased like salmon up birth water hoping to circumnavigate Africa around the Cape of Good Hope door opened . . . These are the very first words of the collection. Note the short, packed lines. And the discombobulating line breaks. There is something so lovely, though, about the harshness. Komunyakaa channels Emily Dickinson here, but without the sudden self-reproach that erupts from a more inhibited voice. The poet in these jerky breaks and lickety-split movements speaks with a panting confidence, ala Buffy the Vampire Slayer punning it up with the demons. ...There is a reason why the dead

6. Yusef Komunyakaa komunyakaa yusef Komunyakaa, Professor of English, Indiana University Bloomington http://www.indiana.edu/~rcapub/v18n3/13c.html

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7. Yusef Komunyakaa (American Writer) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia Seven years after Dove received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Thomas and Beulah (1986), her tribute to her maternal grandparents, Yusef Komunyakaa http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-927518/Yusef-Komunyakaa

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8. Simon & Schuster: Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa appearances, new releases, photos, bios, news, etc. at Simon Schuster Canada. http://www.simonsays.com/content/destination.cfm?tab=25&pid=367408

9. Komunyakaa Yusef - AEI Speakers Bureau Yusef Komunyakaa was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, in 1947. His numerous books of poems include Pleasure Dome New Collected Poems, 19751999 (Wesleyan http://www.aeispeakers.com/speakerbio.php?SpeakerID=1669

10. Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa. Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, Used with permission of Yusef Komunyakaa. Distributed by PennSound. http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Komunyakaa.html

Quick Google Search: PennSound Singles Authors Series Anthologies / Collections / Groups ... Contact us Yusef Komunyakaa Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, March 16, 1998 "Euphony" "The Congo Snake" "Lime" ... "Enerdon" These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. Used with permission of Yusef Komunyakaa. Distributed by PennSound.

11. Guest Editor Yusef Komunyakaa, The Best American Poetry 2003 Yusef komunyakaa yusef Komunyakaa received the Bronze Star for his service as a war correspondent in Vietnam. He won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his http://www.bestamericanpoetry.com/pages/editors/?id=2003

12. Yusef Komunyakaa Biography And Summary Yusef Komunyakaa biography with 282 pages of profile on Yusef Komunyakaa sourced from encyclopedias, critical essays, summaries, and research journals. http://www.bookrags.com/Yusef_Komunyakaa

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13. SUNY Ulster - Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa, a unique figure in American poetry, will make two appearances at Ulster County Community College on Tuesday, April 4, as this year s guest http://www.sunyulster.edu/campus_life/community_activities/poetry_forum/komunyak

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15. Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa An Argument Against Simplicity. Yusef Komunyakaa knows the texture of sound and the multitude of instruments contained in a . http://unjobs.org/authors/yusef-komunyakaa

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17. UPNE - Pleasure Dome: Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America s most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers over twentyfive years of work, including early uncollected poems http://www.upne.com/0-8195-6425-7.html

Site Navigation Pleasure Dome New and Collected Poems Yusef Komunyakaa Wesleyan Poetry Series Wesleyan University Press distributed by University Press of New England 2001 • 468 pp. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2" Poetry / African-American Studies Paper, 0-8195-6739-6 Cloth, 0-8195-6425-7 Shipping Info Checkout Times Literary Supplement Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers over twenty-five years of work, including early uncollected poems and a rich selection of new poems. Best known for Neon Vernacular , which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau Pleasure Dome Pleasure Dome includes 25 early, uncollected poems and a rich selection of 18 new poems. "Komunyakaa certainly deserves this valedictory volume . . . [The new work] is really almost a short collection's worth of material. It's reminiscent of 1998's Thieves of Paradise with its heady mix of gothic foreboding, racial history and realpolitick, biblical and Attic allusion, and sexual longing . . . Most readers will want this book for its alternatingly erudite and feral energy and its truth-telling about Vietnam (see Dien Cai Dau and others) and America."— Publishers Weekly Pleasure Dome Virginia Quarterly Review "Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Komunyakaa's second book in less than a year attests to the protean nature of his poetic imagination and skills, his fluent creative energy, and his passion for living the examined life . . . Komunyakaa is emerging as one of the major American poets of our time."—

18. Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for his book Neon Vernacular New and Selected Poems. Komunyakaa is also a recent recipient of the Ruth Lilly http://www.roanoke.edu/roanokereview/visiting3.html

Tim Gautreaux, nationally known author and judge for the Roanoke Review's 2003 Fiction Contest. April 7, 2002 Rosanna Warren, prolific and prize-winning poet. March 12, 2003 Yusef Komunyakaa, 1994 Pulitzer-Prize winning poet. February 21, 2002 Yusef Komunyakaa won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for his book Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems . Komunyakaa is also a recent recipient of the Ruth Lilly Prize for Poetry. A more in depth biography and list of Komunyakaa's work can be found at Ibiblio.org (click on image to enlarge) home history submission guidelines visiting writers ... links

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20. Tu Do Street - Komunyakaa Yusef - Poezja, Wiersze, Serwis Www komunyakaa yusef. Music divides the evening. I close my eyes can see men drawing lines in the dust. America pushes through the membrane http://www.poezja.org/index.php?akcja=wierszeznanych&ude=6891

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